ben short wrote: > Im using Tomcat 5.5.17. I assumed that my browser would send the > If-Modified-Since Request-Header and have tried your jsp page and it > does.
OK, this shows three things: 1. It's much less helpful to assume things than to find out for sure. If you're interested in the exact request your browser generates, there are a couple of ways get that information. For example: the LiveHTTPHeaders extension for firefox, something similar for IE, tools like Wireshark (The Application Formerly Known As Ethereal), the HTTP monitors NetBeans and the WTP for eclipse provide. 2. The JSP I posted causes Firefox and IE to send If-Modified-Since headers on the second request. 3. The answer to your original question "How do I access the If-Modified-Since header field" is "like you would do for any other header field". OTOH, from what you write about your servlet, I get the impression that your real problem is the following: "How do I avoid to serve ressources again which haven't changed since the last time the client accessed them?". If you want to decide whether or not the client has already requested the actual version of the ressource by using the If-Modified-Since header field, you'll have to find out what causes the clients to send such a header in the first place. RFC 2616 might provide some hints. Regards mks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
